C++, D: Dinosaurs?

[Robert Fraser]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> For example, have you ever tried doing web development? You can't 
> realistically do anything nontrivial without tripping over at least handful 
> of different, essentially domain-specific, languages: ECMAScript, (T)SQL, 
> (X)HTML, XML, CSS, and either PHP, ASP/VBScript, ASP.NET/C#, Python or Ruby. 
> And that's just the bare minimum for any non-trivial web site. For one 
> thing, most of those are great examples of the fact that domain-specific 
> languages do nothing to prevent piss-poor language design. But besides that: 
> Conceptually, web development is one of the most trivial forms of 
> programming out there. But the domain-specific language-soup realities of it 
> have turned what should have been trivial into one of the programming 
> world's biggest pains-in-the-ass. It's an absolute mess. I'm currently 
> writing my first compiler, and I have in the past written homebrew for the 
> Atari VCS, and an Asm sound driver for a multiprocessing 
> microcontroller/embedded-device that has no sound hardware other than a 
> generic DAC capability. All of those have proven to be far less 
> pains-in-the-ass than any of my web development work. Considering the 
> conceptual simplicity of the web, that's just absolutely pathetic. 

Microsoft agrees.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/webdev/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204701262

Write your web frontend & backend in .NET. Throw in a little LINQ-to-SQL 
  and you don't even need SQL. (The official website ihas been down 
since September... I assume they're productizing it).